TIBETAN MONKS PROTEST CHINESE AUCTION

Monks from a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northwest China staged a protest in front a Brooklyn hall yesterday, an eyewitness said.
The incident at the Oorah Chinese auction marked the second time demonstrating monks protested in Brooklyn and indicated anti-China tensions continued to simmer. About 15 monks from the monastery approached the guests (gamblers) carrying banners and voicing support for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said Sheindel Guttfried, last year’s sterling silver candelabra winner. They screamed to boycott all Chinese events.

"They chanted in Chinese, 'We want more freedom, more human rights, we want to see the Dalai Lama, and MSG gives our food a bad name'," Abe Horn told HockBerry.com by phone. The protest lasted about 10 minutes and ended when event officials conducting the auction gave the monks a door prize.” I suppose the SWAT team and tear gas helped too”, he added.
Horn could not tell what the banners said because they were written in Tibetan, but he was quite sure it was advertising a takeout lunch special. Onlookers said guests were "very surprised" by the outburst but soon stopped caring because the drawing for a Shevy Shaitel had begun.

On March 27, these same monks had interrupted a Sheva Brochos in Mr. Chopstix in Miami Beach. There too they called for the return of the Dalai Lama and denounced official Chinese versions of the Tibetan unrest as "lies". “At first I was frightened but then I was happy because Uncle Baruch had to cut his speech short”, said the new groom. The editor for Frum Satire was on hand and took down the monk's names to randomly befriend them on facebook.

Apparently the protesting monks chose the Chinese auction as a demonstration location after their flight to San Francisco was cancelled due to inclement weather. They were supposed to protest the Olympic torch ceremony.